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AV Idol

AV Idols is the term used in Japan for describing adult video stars. When a porn actress becomes popular and recognizable she becomes referred as Idol, more popularity gives some idols cult status. Not every adult video actress is a star (idol), only those most popular, there are many other who are simply amateurs or not-yet idols but on their way to be ;) In spite of their very often innocent looks they performs in hardcore porn movies, including gangbanging theme, bukkake, SM and some other fetish. AV Idol term is distinctively used for Japanese only actresses. In western culture it's simply Pornstar.

AV Idol in Mainstream

AV Idols often performs modelling (ex.: for bikini) they can also appear in the mainstream movies or in Sci-Fi and horror movies (very popular amongst AV Idols). Sometimes a non-porn related celebrity from television can wish to appear in adult movie. AV actress is considering a very good and profitable career in Japan and is not considered shameful on the contrary to western culture.

AV Idol Job

AV actresses are scouted by talent agencies or apply for this job (ex.: Maria Ozawa). Movies with "New Face" actress are usually called AV Debut and a salary of new girls are sometimes over $15.000 per movie, well known AV stars can earn more than $35.000.

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11 Movies per Day

Adult Video market in Japan is very big and it is said they produce over 11 movies everyday. Career span of one actress is usually 1 year and up to 10 videos. More popular models can have over 100 movies and are working for even 10 years. Adult Video industry in Japan is dated on early 1980s.

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Vinyl/Bini Bon

Softcore, censored photobook. It may or may not have text. The "beaver-books" were sold from vending machines with one-way mirrors on the face. During daylight, the books were not visible. At night they were illuminated from inside and thus viewable to potential customers. Early books priced from about 900 yen.Infos thanks to Jans-Web

Gravure Idol

Adult model which performs usually softcore erotic for men magazines, photobooks, centerfolds and softcore vids. They commonly appears in bikinis, lingerie, schoolgirl uniforms, kimonos. Gravure models can be pre-teen girls (non-nude session). In western culture we would probably use term "pin-up" to describe Gravure.

Mosaic and Urabon

Almost unchanged since 1907 law about distribute obscene materials in Japan resulted in censorship. Adult Videos have mosaic which covers pussies and dicks of performers. Sometimes this mosaic is advertised as "Tiny" and is balancing on the edge of law. But people have it's demands and here comes underground (urabon) market. You can buy uncensored movies in Japan but not legally, you have to dig a bit their Urabon market (underground/black market). Some Japanese movie producers are shooting uncensored movies but it is illegal to sell it even outside of Japan so they are selling raw footage to outside companies and since they are producers not distributors it happens to be legal by the Japan law. Below is more detailed definition of Urabon by my friend ALOTI (explained in example of Urabon photobooks): "Today's version of Urabon began issue in the present format in 1981, with 48 to 56 pages. Many of the earlier books were pirated from the "beaver-books" and re-issued. In reviewing many of the Japanese language reference sites, the term urabon in Japanese consist of two characters "ura-hon". This literary means "wrong side book" or "back-book". This phrase directly relates to the English phrase Urabon. The word "Back" translates to "ushiro, ura, youritsu, bakku, haigo, rimen". It has also been loosely translated as "plastic-wrapped", "back-room", "under-the-counter" and may other phrases. But the most concise is the one above. Urabon books are illegal in Japan, however, there is an Underground market producing so-called "uncorrected" or "underground" books."

Tina Yuzuki is without a doubt one of the very top av idols, simply beautiful girl and lucky for us with decent number of movies and photos available around. I’ll let myself to shamelessy copy/paste information about her from wikipedia, cuz whatever i could write here won’t be as well detailed as it is there, so for wiki text just scroll a bit down ;)

Tina Yuzuki also known as Rio, is a Japanese actress, singer and AV idol who debuted as an AV actress in 2005, appearing in videos produced by the Max-A and S1 studios. After starring in AVs in various genres during her first year in the industry, she won an industry award as Best New Actress for 2006. Since late 2007, she has used the stage name of Rio.

AV debut and Max-A Tina Yuzuki was born in Tokyo on October 29, 1986. Like fellow AV idols Maria Ozawa, Meisa Hanai and Anna Ohura, Yuzuki is of mixed-race parentage. Her father is Japanese and her mother is Portuguese, and she learned to speak Portuguese from her mother.

Yuzuki made her AV debut at age nineteen in the November 2005 release for Max-A’s Calen label, Hot Wind, The director of Yuzuki’s premier video uses the name ‘Toshio,’ and has continued to work with the actress throughout her AV career. Another collaboration between Yuzuki and director Toshio was in the March 2007 Max-A release, High School Uniform and Machine-Gun. Yuzuki continued appearing in videos for Max-A about once a month throughout 2006 and 2007.

The Japanese AV industry recognized Yuzuki by naming her the Best New Actress at the 2006 AV Actress Grand Prix awards.

Rio and S1 In September 2007, Yuzuki announced in her official blog that she was changing her stage name from Tina Yuzuki to Rio and was starting a new blog under that name. In October 2007 Max-A released Endless Ecstasy Fuck under the name Rio. After spending two years making videos exclusively for Max-A, Yuzuki began performing for S1 No. 1 Style, part of Japan’s largest porn company, the Hokuto Corporation, as early as February 2008 with the release of Risky Mosaic Rio, directed by Hideto Aki. She continued working for S1, producing one video per month, through the beginning of 2009 when she once again began performing for Max-A.

Yuzuki was crowned Best Actress at the 2008 Adult Broadcasting Awards for appearances on the Cherry Bomb adult TV channel on SKY PerfecTV! satellite television. In addition, her November 2008 film, Double Risky Mosaic, Rio & Yuma, with Yuma Asami, was the S1 studio’s entry in the 2009 AV GrandPrix contest. The video took the top GrandPrix Award and also won in several other categories: DVD Sales, Retailers Award, Package Design, and Best Featured Actress Video.

In another entertainment area, Yuzuki along with other S1 actresses was a regular on the late night TV variety show Please Muscat and was a member of the all-girl J-pop group from that show, the Ebisu Muscats.

IdeaPocket and mainstream film Rio began making videos for AV studio IdeaPocket in March 2009 with the release of Rio’s Everyday Carnival directed by Tadanori Usami.

Rio appeared in her first mainstream movie in 2009, the schoolgirl prostitute revenge erotic thriller Stop the Bitch Campaign directed by Kosuke Suzuki with Kenichi Endo as the villain. The film, the third in the series, debuted at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 2009 followed by a series of screenings in March at the Cinema Rosa in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo. A DVD was released in June 2009.

Also in 2009, she was one of three AV Idols appearing in the joint Japanese-Korean production Korean Classroom which was broadcast on Korean TV in May 2009. Along with her fellow stars Sora Aoi and Mihiro, she traveled to Korea to promote the four part series. Later that year Yuzuki starred in the comedy Kosupure tantei based on the manga of the same name. The film, produced by Ace-Deuce, was released theatrically in July 2009 and came out as a DVD the next month.

On Japanese TV, Yuzuki played the role of Lisa in the first and last (11th) episodes of the TBS comedy Unubore Deka which aired July-September 2010 and starred Tomoya Nagase, Toma Ikuta and Mika Nakashima. That same year, she played a murder victim in the TBS mystery movie Keishicho Minamidaira Han – Nana Nin No Keiji which was broadcast on August 23, 2010.

In May 2011, Yuzuki performed in the drama Hard Life, a screen adaptation of the novel by Sueko Nakamura directed by Kenji Seki. The film debuted in February 2011 at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival and was released theatrically in Japan in May 2011. Yuzuki starred in fashion designer RYNSHU’s July 2012 film 9 3/4, a love story centered on the fashion industry. American singer and RYNSHU customer Will I Am made a cameo appearance in the film.

When the major Japanese adult video distributor DMM held a poll of its customers in 2012 to choose the 100 all time best AV actresses to celebrate the 30th anniversary of adult videos in Japan, Yuzuki finished in tenth place.

She is currently signed under JVC records. (informations thanks to wikipedia.org)

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Exclusive sites are those who shoot their own movies and photos and it's not being repeated on others sites. In Japan there's a couple of exclusive sites but it's censored and sometimes updated like once per month, what may be OK for an average Japanese fan, but it's not good for a Westerners, who are used to something more, so exclusive Japanese sites made for Western dude have lot's more updates and are uncensored (!) I'm gonna show you few best one's on sidebars of AVIdol.org.